OXES Sue Old Navy Over T-Shirt Design
In some ways, the band Oxes is the self-appointed Monica Lewinsky of indie rock. No, the Baltimore three-piece hasn’t been fooling around with the President (to our knowledge), but the group has gained a decent amount of notoriety via scandal– including such pranks as generating a fake protest story around their 2002 Oxxxes LP and publicizing a fake split with Arab on Radar. For Monica, the scandal had to do with a certain blue dress; for Oxes, it’s a t-shirt.
On Wednesday, August 9, the band filed a trademark infringement suit in Manhattan federal court against Old Navy for printing and selling t-shirts bearing the image of an Oxes concert flier without asking the band or their label’s (Monitor Records) permission. (And all this time, didn’t you just assume Old Navy made up those t-shirt ideas? "JoJo’s Shrimp Shack"…"Viking Field Hockey"…it doesn’t seem that difficult.)
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